Domestic violence is a serious crime in societies all over the world. It refers to abusive behavior by a person or a couple who are in an intimate relationship like cohabitation, dating, family or marriage. Such acts of crime includes physical assault like slapping, kicking, shoving, hitting, throwing objects or threatening to assault. Law also considers sexual abuse, intimidation, stalking, neglecting, economic deprivation and emotional abuse as forms of domestic violence. But domestic violence does not imply physical violence only. A person commits a crime when he kidnaps, unlawfully imprisons, harasses, stalks, trespasses and coerces another person. Someone accused of such criminal offenses can approach a domestic violence attorney for understanding his legal rights and taking appropriate steps within the legal framework for quicker solutions.